psy appendix b

Associate Level Material
Appendix B

History Matrix

Directions: Using the matrix, list at least five events or major concepts from each of the three periods in the history of modern personality psychology.

1930 - 1950
1950 - 1970
1970 - Present
Example:
* Learning from animal responses.

-During the 1930’s personality theorists Freud, Jung, and Adler came together to form a new academic discipline.
-The first issue of journal and personality was published in 1932, this was aimed to join German studies.

-During 1937 Gordon published a major textbook that was the first to be published on personality.
-In the 1930’s American searched the universal laws pertaining to all organisms.
-During the 1930s Freud, Jung, Adler had all built comprehensive theories of personalities brought from clinical observations and rooted in the psychoanalytic tradition.
-Beginning in 1957 Hall and Lindsey organized the fields to these systems psychoanalytic and psychosocial theories, temperament and trait models, approaches concerning motives ad needs, humanistic self-theories, organismic theories, cognitive theories, learning theories, etc.

Example:
* Specialized psychology depart
-Allport made major contributions to the nature of prejudice.
- Allport defines a trait as a neuropsychic structure having the capacity to render many stimuli functionally equivalent and to initiate and guide equivalent forms of adaptive and expressive behavior.
-With the tremendous expansion of higher education after World War II, psychology departments grew and became more specialized, spawning professional specializations in such personality-related areas as clinical, counseling, and industrial/organizational psychology.
-Personality psychologists focused their research efforts on the examination and elaboration of particular personality constructs—such as extraversion (Eysenck, 1952), anxiety (Taylor, 1953), the need for achievement (McClelland, 1961), and a host of other traits, needs, motives, and so on that could be reliably and validly measured and whose impact on behavior could be directly observed
Example:
* The Big Five model.
-Trait models for personality regained their status and influence in psychology as a whole.
-Personality’s psychologist have refined new research methodologies for the scientific study for persons.( Robins,Fraley,Krueger 2007)
-2006 Mroczec and Little, renewed commitment to studying whole persons in their full biographical complexity.
-critique and pervasive doubt concerning the legitimacy and worth of personality studies, but it evolved by the mid-1980s into a bigger sense
Of renewal and revitalization.
-Mischel’s critique launched a protracted debate in the field of personality psychology over the efficacy of trait-based versus situation-based approaches to predicting and
Understanding social behavior.